13 Jun 16 09:06, you wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 >> What you are forgetting here, is that the EList is NOT part of Fidonet.
 >> It is a private list, which lists echos from Fido, and othernets.  It
 >> has no authority

 EC> It has whatever authority someone assigns to it. If a sysop gets a
 EC> message saying "one of your users has repeatedly violated the rules of
 EC> my echo, in spite of repeated warnings from me," and the sysop knows
 EC> nothing about the echo or the person, hopefully the first thing they
 EC> would do is check the list to see if that was the actual moderator.
 EC> Seems like a valuable and convenient service for everyone, without
 EC> getting hung up on the notion of "authority."

that's exactly the main reason that the backbones use and refer to the
echolist... too bad others aren't bright enough to understand it... even
with their "degrees" :(

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